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Stephen Downes

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Just passing this along. "Consider the following facets of Blackboard's openness," writes Lynn Zingraf. "We support a number of integration frameworks... We embrace and support IMS Global Learning Consortium standards... We support a number of standards for authentication and single sign-on (including) SAML 2.0, LDAP, CAS, and Shibboleth... we support the Creative Common standard ... Blackboard Learn supports SCORM and IMS Common Cartridge..." And there's a few more. Does this make Blackboard "open"? OK, maybe not. But then, what is it that it does make Blackboard?

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